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Airport Security Follies

December 30, 2007 John Air Travel, Airport Security, Homeland Security, Terrorism, Terrorists, TSA

The New York Times has a great Op-Ed about the foolishness of the TSA security screenings at airports. It points out, as most thinking people have to come realize that this is mostly feel-good theater that does no actual good at preventing another terrorist attack.

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News For The Week Ending Dec. 27, 2007

December 28, 2007December 28, 2007 John Bluetooth headset, cell phone, Christmas Eve, Columbus, Fred Phelps, Ohio, physics, Robbery, San Francisco Zoo, scents, scientist, Septic Tank, string theory, Tiger, Time, Vodafone, Wendy-039s, Westboro Baptist Church

Here’s our last installment of the weekly tid bits for 2007. We’ve got a guy stuck in his septic tank on Christmas Eve. And leave it to Fred Phelps to end the year on some wing-nuttery as he blames the tiger attack in San Francisco on gay people. A wyoming woman stabbed her husband for opening presents early, and a bluetooth headset and cell phone foiled a robbery in Columbus, Ohio. We also have some Spanish scientists postulating that time might be slowing down.

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Hunger In America

December 10, 2007 John Appalachia, Christian Science Monitor, food insecure, Hunger

I came across an article at the Christian Science Monitor on-line today about hunger in America. I spent some evenings working in the homeless shelter in Winston-Salem some years ago, and have, as a result of that experience, developed some perspective on the problems of poverty and homelessness in America. I wish I had some solutions, but I don’t…just a sense of what the world is really like.

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Thanksgiving Summary

December 2, 2007 John Blowing Rock, Boone, North Carolina, thanksgiving

I know it’s a bit late, but I thought I’d write an update from our Thanksgiving trip to North Carolina.

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And the Walls Came Tumbling Down

November 27, 2007August 24, 2008 John Paula White, Paula White Ministries, Randy White, Without Walls International Church

I’m not sure if Joshua played a role, but it seems the pastors of America’s fastest growing megachurch, Without Walls International Church, is having a bit of a crisis of leadership. Married pastors Randy and Paula White announced at last Thursday night’s service that they were getting a divorce.